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Mnangagwa and the Gukurahundi - fact and fiction
As journalists and a veritable army of newfound Zimbabwe "experts" join the bun rush to describe the history of Robert Mugabe's replacement, Emmerson Mnangagwa, there has been much talk about his role...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by Stuart Doran
Chiwenga, Mugabe, Sekeramayi, Shiri and Zvobgo : The real gukurahundi culprits
THE Ndebele people of western Zimbabwe have a proverb, walutheza olule nkume, which, roughly translated, means "A person picked up firewood in which there was ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Stuart Doran
Gukurahundi origins: myths and reality
THE fundamental precondition for understanding Zimbabwe in the 1980s - and beyond - is to recognise the supremacist mentality that has underwritten Zimbabwean nationalism since its development in the ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran
Mugabe wanted a Civil War in Zimbabwe
THE so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which President Robert Mugabe's then guerrilla army, Zanla, fought that of his nationalist rival Joshua Nkomo's Zipra, a...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 15:18hrs | 2 | by Stuart Doran
Gukurahundi Origins: Myth and reality, part 1 - 'war' in Bulawayo, 1980-1
The so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which Robert Mugabe's guerrilla army fought that of his nationalist rival, Joshua Nkomo, are typically cited as among th...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Stuart Doran
Mugabe pursued his objectives with ruthless violence
The ruthless violence with which Mugabe pursued his objectives after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has prompted biographers, analysts and critics to search for indications of this propensity in earl...Published: 25 May 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Dr Stuart Doran I Daily Maverick
What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi
CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
Mugabe's death, Zimbabwe politicians ready themselves
To the casual observer, nothing much seems to have happened in Zimbabwe in recent years: Robert Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, remains president and Zanu-PF is still the ruling party more t...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 22:04hrs | | by Dr Stuart Doran
Gukurahundi: reckoning nears
TO the casual observer, nothing much seems to have happened in Zimbabwe of recent times. Robert Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, remains president. And Zanu-PF is still the ruling party, more...Published: 19 May 2016 at 13:18hrs | | by Dr Stuart Doran
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